Also 7 tenur, tenner, 8–9 tendour, 9 tan-, tendoor. [= F. tandour, a. tandūr, Turkish pronunc. of Pers. and Arab. tannūr oven, portable furnace, a. Aramaic tannūrā, Heb. tannūr, Assyrian tinūru furnace, oven.] A heating apparatas consisting of a square table with a brazier under it, round which persons sit for warmth in cold weather in Persin, Turkey, and adjacent countries.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 294. They [Persians] call this kind of Stoves Tenner. Ibid., 303. In Winter they have their Tenurs against the Cold.
1718. Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. to Mrs. Thistlethwayte, 4 Jan. Warming themselves … neither by chimney nor stoves, but a certain machine called a tendour, the height of two feet, in the form of a table, covered with a fine carpet or embroidery. This is made only of wood, and they put into it a small quantity of hot ashes, and sit with their legs under the carpet.
1802. Edin. Rev., I. 51. The tandour supplies the want of grates and chimnies.
1840. Fraser, Trav. Koordistan, etc., I. vi. 150. A sort of oven called a tendour. Ibid., II. ix. 200. Tendoor.
